As the temperature continued to cool across most of the United States during the first full weekend in November, the boxing schedule kept heating up. The...
Stylish Devin Haney couldn’t get the knockout against former champion Yuri Gamboa but showed off superior fighting skills in retaining the WBC lightweight title and winning...
Avila Perspective, Chap 112: Devin Haney and More Now that two major sports have ended their seasons only prizefighting and American football remain. Last week we...
“—C’mon!” said Teofimo Lopez with two seconds left in the 12th round. It was a Brooklyn thing to say on a Brooklyn-type Saturday night, and Lopez...
Boxing is back! Okay, boxing had technically been back for a few months now. But didn’t it seem to be more fully back to normal with...
Avila Perspective, Chap. 109: Lopez vs. Loma and More Its LatinX versus “High Tech,” it’s Brooklyn versus Oxnard and its’ a clash between brash and cool....
In December 2017, a few days prior to Vasiliy Lomachenko’s dominant performance against Guillermo Rigondeaux, who quit on his stool after six rounds at the Theater...
The WBC’s ‘Franchise’ Sticker and More Judges Add to Boxing’s Numbers Glut My late Cuban mother-in-law said a lot of things in her thick accent that...
Several years ago, Saul “Neno” Rodriguez was tabbed best new prospect by British journalists and was involved in a tug of war between rival boxing promotion...
Under gray skies and very cool temperatures Ryan Garcia arrived with his father and a couple of others at the Westside Boxing Gym on Monday. Waiting...